John D. Rockefeller Quotes

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit ... a reputation, character.

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.

I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.

A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily

To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!

I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you're doing in business.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Own nothing, control everything.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance
do not sacrifice that to anything else.

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.

Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

God gave me my money.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Competition is a sin.

Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.

Nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it

I believe the power to make money is a gift from God ... to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.

Save when you can and not when you have to.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.

The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.